LAS VEGAS - Organic Mattresses Inc. is introducing a new Certified Organic Mattress Collection at the Las Vegas Market that doubles the number of third-party certified organic mattresses offered by the company. The Yuba City, Calif.-based ...
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Douglas J. Mathisen, MD was awarded a Distinguished Service Award by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons on Monday evening at the Society's 50th Annual Meeting. The Distinguished Service Award, established in 1969, recognizes those who have ...
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(Phys.org) —Advances in light-sheet microscopy have led to impressive images and videos of the brain in action. With this technique, a plane of light is scanned through the sample to excite fluorescent calcium sensors which proxy ...
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(Phys.org) —An attempt to uncover the 'holy grail' of a lossless energy source has inadvertently led to a study which could result in the next generation of high-speed, mass storage hard drives. Chemists at the University of ...
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Building robots is hard. Seriously hard. Not only do you have to construct them physically, but even after you've got them all wired up with motors and sensors and batteries and whatnot, they won't actually DO anything until you've spent ...
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A new study from UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) has found that parenting affects the academic and social performance of African American boys as they move from preschool to kindergarten. "The transition to ...
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A selection of health policy stories from New York, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Florida, Rhode Island and Georgia. The New York Times: Mayor And Governor Teaming Up To Save Brooklyn Hospitals Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. ...
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Sixteen leading food and beverage companies in the US sold 6.4 trillion fewer calories in the US in 2012 than they did in 2007, according to the findings of a report funded by health organisation the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). ...
Tickets are now on sale for the 2014 Arkansas Flower and Garden Show Feb. 21-23 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The show, which benefits educational scholarships to Arkansas horticulture students and beautification ...
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ICE Cotton settled almost 150 pts lower for the week at 85.83 c/lbs basis the H4, which wasn’t bad considering Monday started with a 300 pts sell-off. What looked like a near-term top above 88 cents now has to be viewed a bit more ...
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DiaSorin, a biotechnology company, has received all the marketing approvals for hepatitis, retroviral and syphilis assays on its Liaison XL platform for the Chinese market. DiaSorin is now entering the hepatitis B, hepatitis C and ...
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At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Sensirion AG is presenting its latest humidity and temperature sensor SHTW1, which opens up new possibilities in the weara-ble and mobile market with its chip-scale packaging technology. This global ...
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Alliance Memory has extended its 64M and 128M lines of high-speed CMOS synchronous DRAMs (SDRAM) with a new 2M x 32 device in the 90-ball 8mm by 13-mm by 1.2mm TFBGA package and a 4M x 32 device in the 86-pin 400mil plastic TSOP II package. ...
Kimberly-Clark Corporation reported year-end 2013 results and provided its 2014 outlook and related key planning assumptions. Executive Summary Fourth quarter 2013 net sales of $5.3 billion were even with the year-ago period. ...
Rugs from the Gramercy collection will be on display in Feizy’s World Market Center C-399 showroom during the Las Vegas Market. DALLAS — Coming off a strong 40th anniversary year, Feizy Rugs officials say they have big things ...
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